How to Use gangsta rap in a Sentence

gangsta rap

noun
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  • By 1992, the Beastie Boys no longer fit in with a hip-hop scene centered on gangsta rap.
    — cleveland, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Since then, hip-hop has spawned a mass of subgenres – gangsta rap, crunk and trap among them.
    — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • A generation later, the hair metal and synthpop of the ’80s gave way to the grunge and gangsta rap of the ’90s.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 26 Feb. 2021
  • In essence, Vanilla Ice’s success helped lay the groundwork for the gangsta rap that killed his career.
    — Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The questions of voyeurism and slumming that have hovered over hip-hop fandom since the rise of gangsta rap are heightened in drill.
    — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
  • This will certainly be a nostalgia trip to the days of gangsta rap, grunge and the power of music videos.
    — cleveland, 29 Apr. 2020
  • One year later, in 1987, Dre helped design gangsta rap with N.W.A..
    — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Uptown made room for romance, dance jams, gangsta rap, and more all on one label.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 10 May 2020
  • Franklin’s biopic hopes finally started to gain real steam in 2015 — thanks to a gangsta rap movie.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Long after trends like grunge, gangsta rap and rap rock have faded, the joyous sounding Nukes keep rolling.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al.com, 18 June 2019
  • The history of hip-hop, and especially of gangsta rap, is dotted with all of it.
    — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 7 Apr. 2021
  • But thanks to oversaturation and the rise of West Coast gangsta rap, breaking soon fell out of favor.
    — Sean Gregory, TIME, 5 Mar. 2024
  • This is the real birth of gangsta rap because many listeners bought into it.
    — Armond White, National Review, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Snoop Dogg buys Death Row Records, a onetime label home and gangsta rap powerhouse.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The East Coast old guard bristled at dance and found the idea of Southern gangsta rap, and Southern women gangsta rappers, laughable.
    — Zandria Robinson, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2021
  • After all, with a sum of 11 locations in New York and Los Angeles, this is the place for yogis who can handle gangsta rap.
    — Noor Brara, Vogue, 13 Apr. 2018
  • This, more or less, is how the music industry responded to gangsta rap some thirty years ago.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • And its rise to virality reminisces of the ascent of gangsta rap into the mainstream.
    — Javier Hasse, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • Adding to the jazz, funk, and Southern California gangsta rap of his past albums, Lamar borrows from modern classical and choral music to achieve a stark sort of majesty.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 18 May 2022
  • There was a poetry to his music that transcended the demographic lines of the previous era’s gangsta rap boom.
    — Christian Hoard, Rolling Stone, 9 Apr. 2021
  • While his hometown might be canonically known for G-funk and gangsta rap, its mix of throwback and future-minded music left a deep impression on him as a teen.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2021
  • His music falls squarely into the tradition of classic L.A. gangsta rap, but with a refined and vivid perspective.
    — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2021
  • From the emergence of gangsta rap and G-Funk to the unfolding of socially conscious lyrics, the origins and success of West Coast rap continue to evolve, leaving a lasting impact on pop culture.
    — Cecily Cruz, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Trish might serve you a reverent Christmas song, a faithful Britney cover, or a pridefully gauche take on ’80s gangsta rap.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 17 June 2021
  • Kendrick's 'Damn' expands gangsta rap's palette with slick synths and psychedelic guitar.
    — Mikael Wood, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
  • As for the other pioneers of the gangsta rap pestilence, society has forgiven and forgotten.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 28 June 2022
  • Influence could only carry the gangsta rap pioneers so far.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Fear of a Black Hat, and Brüno long ago proved viewers don’t need to care about the particular subculture being skewered (purebred dog shows; gangsta rap; haute-couture fashion) to enjoy the skewering.
    — Nicolas Stecher, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2022
  • Three months before the Iraq war, an especially noxious new strain of gangsta rap from Houston, Texas had bubbled onto conservative radar.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 28 June 2022
  • When music chronicling murderous street life and sexist violence began to get radio play, the labels gave in and started signing gangsta rap artists.
    — Amy Dubois Barnett, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024

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